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Kirit Somaiya slams Maharashtra govt over COVID-19 situation
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya on Sunday lashed out at the Udhhav Thackeray-led government over the prevailing coronavirus situation alleging that the State government is testing fewer samples and has not done enough to combat the
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Study reveals post-COVID syndrome severely damages children's hearts
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Texas [US], September 6 (ANI): Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), believed to be linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions, said the senior author of a medical review.
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Study: Unravelling mother to baby transmission of Zika virus
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 5 (ANI): Zika virus can establish a persistent, replicating infection in the placenta, which is present months after the onset of the acute infection, shows a new study.
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Tokyo 2020 confirms fourth COVID-19 infection
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 5 (ANI/Xinhua) An employee with the Tokyo 2020 organising committee has tested positive for COVID-19, it was announced on Saturday.
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UP CM directs officials to conduct door-to-door survey, medical tests to c
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 4 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials to effectively conduct the door-to-door survey, contact tracing and medical testing to control COVID-19 infection.
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Dehradun DM bans entry of common people in Collectorate office
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], September 4 (ANI): Dehradun DM Ashish Srivastava on Friday banned the movement of common people in the collectorate office from September 7, by giving advance order, stating the risk of corona infection to the employees.
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Researchers identify nanobody that may help prevent COVID-19 infection
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], September 4 (ANI): Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a nanobody -- a small neutralizing antibody -- that has the capacity to block SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells.
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Cellular roadmaps predict body's coronavirus vulnerability
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 4 (ANI): New research from Cornell University developed potential roadmaps for how the coronavirus infects organs and identifies what molecular factors could help facilitate or restrict infection.
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Children can have COVID-19 antibodies, virus in their system simultaneousl
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Children's National Hospital researchers, who set out to improve the understanding of how long it takes pediatric patients with the virus to clear it from their systems and at what point they start to make antibodies that work against the coronavirus, have
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Minimal SARS-CoV-2 diversity suggests global vaccine is feasible: Study
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], Sept 2 (ANI): Genetic analysis of sequences from more than 27,000 individuals infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reveals that the virus has mutated minimally since December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections.
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Coronavirus infection in Nepal enters community transmission phase: Nepal
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], September 2 (ANI): With growing cases of Covid-19 cases in Nepal, 12 districts in the country have entered the phase of community transmission, the Ministry of Health and Population said on Tuesday.
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Unravelling mother to baby transmission of Zika virus
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that Zika virus can establish a persistent, replicating infection in the placenta, which is present months after the onset of the acute infection.
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